Over-view of Critical Thinking!!

As far as I have known critical thinking, critical thinking is all about making advanced thinking than normal thinking. Moreover, critical thinking is bringing advanced, descriptive, analytical and effective thinking in a particular issue or cause. In a general view, critical thinking is about providing analytical or critical information towards a particular issue. Being analytical is about breaking things (practices, situations, statements, problems, arguments, ideas, theories, etc.) into their feature or primitive parts.

Being critical is not about accepting the reality as it is shown but proving that reality to be correct and then placing your judgments over it, making evaluations about them; making reasoned judgments about how accurate, factual, realistic, pertinent, operative, advantageous they ought to be.

Being a critical thinker must involve the following attributes:

§  Being open minded: a person should have open views and one must have to be aware of personal biases in yourself and others  

§  Evaluating

§  Reflective

§  Identifying opinions, facts, purpose, missing information, in consistency, irrelevant information, etc.

§  Reasoning: thinking logically, using valid and reliable evidences, being objective and developing a reasoned line of arguments.  

§  Asking Questions: in order to think critically, one must have an attribute of asking questions in order to gain knowledge of everything related to the concept.

Critical thinking refers to a process of judgment taken after an analytical evaluation of a problem. It can be developed through the practice of intentional analyzing of every situation in life. Critical thinking skills can be developed by inculcating a habit of analytical and strategic thinking. If you can get yourself into the habit of analyzing every situation critically, you will gradually acquire critical thinking skills.       

Critical thinking is not only about thinking analytically but also about thinking differently. It is about coming up with a variety of ways to solve a problem. Critical analysis not only dissects a problem, but also helps finds a way to go the root of the matter. It is always important to understand the problem in order to overcome it.